At least 10 members of the group Stop Fracking Payne County claim their anti-fracking signs were stolen, run over, ripped out of the ground or vandalized recently.

“I just want to be able to put up my sign because I care about it and I think it’s important,” said Ariel Ross, who is a member of Stop Fracking Payne County.

Ross said she and her husband have replaced the anti-fracking sign in front of their home four times. They even re-engineered the current sign with metal and cables to keep it in the ground.

“Within two days, somebody had ripped it out of the ground and pulled the whole cable out of the ground," Ross said. "We put it back and literally the next night the sign was like torn up."

Ross said the problem started about three months ago but got worse after Stillwater City Council considered an ordinance that would ban mining -- to include fracking and other oil and gas exploration -- on agricultural land within the city limits.

City council members did not pass the ordinance; however, the matter will go before the planning commission again Tuesday.